The United States and its allies have decided to stop deliveries of oil to North Korea immediately.
The suspension of fuel shipments came after the United States said it wanted to punish North Korea for breaching a 1994 anti-nuclear pact.
Board members of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization, charged with implementing the deal, met in New York, five weeks after North Korea's confession that it has a nuclear program.
The pact, known as the Agreed Framework, promised to provide two nuclear power reactors to North Korea plus 500,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil a year in return for a freeze on North Korea's nuclear weapons programme.
But Washington considers Pyongyang to have nullified the pact after confirming charges laid by the United States last month that it was trying to build nuclear weapons with enriched uranium.
AFP